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69@Mike The "without requiring Excel to be installed" piece has nothing to do with being professional. It's about dependencies. The original text of the question was worded as: "Ideally, I would like open source so I don't have to add any third party dependencies to my code, and I would like to avoid using Excel directly to create the file (using OLE Automation.)" It's unfortunate the question was drastically simplified.– TonyCommented Apr 2, 2019 at 15:02
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10Assuming you were trying to do something sans library or external code, I can't speak for xls file, but for xlsx files, why not start by taking an existing one, renaming it to a zip file and exploring the contents? A little bit of reverse engineering will tell you quite a bit. There are several different xml files and rels files in the various folders and subfolders. Try exploring that and see if it's something you can replicate or see if you can find documentation on the various xml namespaces/schemas.– Alexander Ryan BaggettCommented Aug 13, 2019 at 21:37
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